Category: Prisoners of Conscience
Posted on January 31, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Voices that are buried under the debris of silence A letter by Kurdish rights activist Ms. Soraya Fallah to Ms. Shirin Abadi concerning the imminent execution of a female Kurdish political prisoner Zainab Jalalian. (Translated to English from Farsi by …
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Posted on January 27, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Kurdish political prisoner Mr. Farhad Tarom has reportedly become the latest executed prisoner in Iran according to a number of independent sources inside Iran. According to the outlawed Kurdish News Agency, Mr. Farhad Tarom had been residing in Iraqi Kurdistan …
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Posted on January 22, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Just a couple of weeks after activists worldwide began protesting the imminent risk of execution of Kurdish political prisoner, Mr. Habibollah Latifi, Iranian authorities reportedly executed another political prisoner, Mr. Hossein Khezri. A number of unverified reports state that Mr. …
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Posted on January 17, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Rights group decries ‘execution binge’ in Iran Associated Press: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian authorities have unleashed an “execution binge” with an average rate of one person hanged every eight hours since the beginning of the year, a rights …
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Posted on August 21, 2010 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
According to a number of individual sources, Kurdish political prisoner – Mohammad Amin Agoushi – has gone on hunger strike since August 15th. Mr. Agoushi is being held at the central prison in Orumieh and has been sentenced to death …
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Posted on December 10, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Following the tragic execution of Ehsan Fattahian, we were trying to find multiple sources on other Kurdish victims of severe oppression and crimes. This took us many days and we wanted to make the process simpler not just for us, …
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Posted on July 28, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
A court in Diyabakır has sentenced Kurdish politician Leyla Zana to 1 year and 3 months imprisonment for allegedly spreading PKK propaganda in a speech made at a seminar at London’s SOAS University on 24 May 2008.
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Posted on July 24, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Tonia Kaboudvand’s letter to her imprisoned father, Mohammad Sadegh Kaboudvand. My dear father, today we enter the third year in which you were taken from us and we are still eagerly waiting for your return. Father, you are not an …
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